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I got to see my kid play live music for the first time since shortly before she graduated high school two years ago.

Before she went back to school this year, she suggested that, instead of coming out for parents' weekend, I come out to see one of her band concerts.  Since none of the scheduled activities were particularly interesting to us, I thought it was a great idea.  In addition to getting to see the Keene State Concert Band, I also got to see the Keene High School band performing on its own, and they did one piece together.

And tomorrow, I'm taking the kiddo and a couple friends for dinner before I fly back on Saturday.

I always enjoyed seeing my kids perform music.

I saw them in 1998 on the 9 Lives tour and in 2001 for the Just Push Play tour - both shows were in the basketball stadium on my college campus at Illinois.  I've had no desire to see them since - I have great memories of those shows and haven't really wanted to sour the experience 20 years later.  I'm happy to have seen them when they were younger and age or health wasn't as much of a factor in the performances.

Funnily enough, my favorite release is A Little South of Sanity, the live album from the 9 Lives/Get a Grip tours....it just brings me back to those shows when I was in college.  They've always been a killer live band.

If he did cover it, then why on God's green earth could he not pick something better?

Probably because HE likes it.

I mean, I like it too.  No accounting for taste, I guess.

Steve Vai: Inviolate

I felt the same way, I don't have a ton of time for gaming and I've been playing BG3 for months now, I never felt like it was a chore though. I'm pretty happy with all my choices as well, I'm looking forward to replaying sometime in the next few years or so.